IN looking back at the world last year, it was a ghoulish, uncivilised descent into nihilism where racial superiority and incredible imperialist domination saturated 2025. I found only one moment of redemption and mental satisfaction in 2025: it was the laughable, comical yet ignominious collapse of the Iron Dome of Israel.
I laughed wildly when I saw Iran punched holes after holes in the Iron Dome last year. If I am the guest on a talk-show and Palestine is the subject, I will laugh when the subject of the Iron Dome comes up. It simply makes you laugh.
The entire Western world of mainstream journalism the past 50 years has brainwashed the peoples of the Global South into thinking that Israel has one of the world’s most invincible military structures. It is false, propagandistic and comical.
The power of the mainstream Western press has made not only the Global South, but also the world believe that Israel was second only to the Great Powers of the world in terms of military might. The Western press and Western academia regaled the world with the undefeatable Iron Dome that surrounds Israel and would defeat any intervention from the skies.
So last year, Iran bombed Israel and the myth was shattered – Israel can easily be defeated. Iran produces drones the way Guyana produces mangoes. So, what the Iranians did last year was to unleash hundreds and hundreds of drones at the same time, in one burst, that the Iron Dome was incapable of intercepting. Strategic buildings were bombed in Tel Aviv, but the Western press hid Israel’s vulnerability from the world.
The world is not going to see Israel bomb any part of Iran now or ever because Israel is going to get what Guyanese say in common parlance – a cut ass. They got it last year and they will get another one if the two countries engage each other. It was the brightest spot in 2025 and perhaps the only bright spot. Elsewhere, 2025 was an exercise in lost hope.
But beneath imperialism’s domination in 2025, there was perhaps a lesson learned that has changed the world forever – the West, in particular Europe, has been permanently exposed as a civilisation founded on racial superiority.
We can fast forward the tape to 2026. The EU declared Iran’s revolutionary guard army, a terrorist organisation. The EU barefacedly told the world that it arrived at that description because of protestors killed during the recent protest in Iran.
No one knows the number of protestors killed. The Israeli Secret Service, Mossad, through its association with mainstream Western journalism invented the number 3,000. That is a widely exaggerated figure, but the EU bought the Mossad’s degeneracy and declared the revolutionary guard establishment as a terrorist entity.
But Israel killed 75,000 Palestinians and they are still killing them as we write, but the EU refuses to label the Israeli government and its armed forces as terrorist and at the same time, in fact, right at this time, a majority of EU nations including non-EU member, Britain, are selling arms to Israel.
The year 2025 was a horrible year for human rights based on what we saw in Gaza and how the West has reacted to the murder of 75,000 Palestinians. The world described the uncivilised descent into genocidal violence by Israel last year, genocide, but the EU refuses to accept such a typology and refuses to accept genocide has occurred in Gaza.
But this very group of European nations told the world the revolutionary guards killed protestors in Iran and thus it has deemed such a governmental arm of the Iranian state as a terrorist body. In the history of relations between the post-colonial world and the imperialist West; there has never been a more sordid moment of Western hypocrisy.
What last year revealed about the world is the myths the world grew up with. The horrific personality of history still remains Adolph Hitler. But who says that? It is easy to find out who said that and continues to say that. The West that colonised the Global South has filled us with that narrative so intensely and relentlessly that since 1945, we believe it.
But the West that told us that Hitler and Stalin were the two devils in human history in 2025 refuses to tell us that Netanyahu is eviler than Hitler. Why is he eviler than Hitler? Because Netanyahu has killed more nurses, doctors, journalists and air workers in six months than Hitler ever did in five years. The year 2025 was a terrible year for the survival of the human spirit, but it also opened our eyes to what the people that once colonised us are like. Do you think Putin should do to Ukraine what the Israelis did to Gaza?
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